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Australia releases "first ever" statement on climate in ag

ROSE MARY PETRASS, RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 13 JUL 2023  |  NEWS
The government has released its first National Statement on Climate Change and Agriculture, outlining a plan for Australia's farmers to "maintain global leadership on climate change and agriculture." The statement commits all governments to work ...

Snapshot: The rapid evolution of sustainable investing in Asia

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 3 JUL 2023  |  NEWS
... common themes... agreed taxonomies, climate reporting that is generally aligned to the TCFD, growing carbon pricing, supply chain due diligence requirements, corporate ESG disclosures and ESG fund-labelling requirements," Tan said. A recent survey by ...

Aussie businesses building climate resilience: FM Global

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 29 JUN 2023  |  NEWS
... insurer has released the 2023 FM Global Resilience Index, which measures countries on 15 economic, risk quality and supply chain measures, including climate and broader ESG metrics. The tool enables companies to augment their business risk assessments ...

Amid economic uncertainty, "overlooked" co-ops and mutuals thrive

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 26 JUN 2023  |  NEWS
Australia's top 100 co-operative and mutual enterprises saw revenue increases of 10.8% to $37.7 billion in the 2022 financial year, despite global and domestic economic uncertainty - with the greatest number being in the financial services sector, a ...

NSW Modern Slavery Plan to build prevention capability

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 22 JUN 2023  |  NEWS
The office of the NSW independent anti-slavery commissioner has outlined a three-year strategic plan to identify and eradicate the more than 16,400 estimated instances of modern slavery in the state. NSW independent anti-slavery commissioner James Cockayne ...

Cost a barrier for SME ambition on net zero: BSI

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 15 JUN 2023  |  NEWS
... have different challenges, but with Australian SMEs, they are 98% of businesses who are down at the lower end of the supply chain and don't have the level of funding that large organisations have," Meehan said. "If I go back to our research from ...

Aussie AI platform aids HK firms in Scope 3 emissions compliance

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  TUESDAY, 13 JUN 2023  |  NEWS
... Although Scope 3 emissions contribute approximately 80% of the company's total emissions they can be "hidden" in the supply chain and therefore can be costly and time-consuming for a company to assess. "Decarbonisation efforts have largely been centred ...

Climate change most pressing issue for APAC C-Suite: Deloitte

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 8 JUN 2023  |  NEWS
... the next year, with 41% saying economic outlook, 37% saying innovation, 35% each citing competition of talent and supply chain issues and 27% saying global conflicts/geopolitical tensions. Globally, economic outlook was the most commonly cited issue. ...

Companies urged to address Scope 3 emissions

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 8 JUN 2023  |  NEWS
... many companies to operate blindly, unaware of the extent to which they need to offset their emissions within their supply chain. Under the Safeguard Mechanism scheme, companies that do not meet their emissions baseline under the National Greenhouse and ...

Experts evaluate impact of Modern Slavery Act review

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 1 JUN 2023  |  NEWS
... sectors. "Recommendation 27 would empower the antislavery commissioner to declare that a region, product, sector or supply chain carries a high modern slavery risk," Goss said. "That's a really important thing because the reality of the economy is that ...